About

Academic background

During his PhD in robotics (Amiens, Berck), FdC conceived an autonomous robot designed to help disabled people, and especially paraplegics. The robot used omnidirectional vision sensor to SLAM and navigated automatically in the environment in order to follow the wheelchair of disabled people. The aim of the project was to deport heavy devices such as synthetic arm on the robot, and to make it a handy companion.

Fabrice de Chaumont also organised events such as the coding party of Icy covering (watch below)

He also initiated the Icy club, where people can come to solve original image analysis problem or get assistance on Icy (watch below). He is now contributing to Icy by developing advanced projects to the platform.

Mice tracking

In 2012, Fabrice de Chaumont was working on tracking C. elegans in screening scenario. He created a new tracking based on deformable models driven by physics engine but it has been finally applied to another field: as he met Sylvie Granon who works on behavioural analysis of mice. They applied the tracking model to mice tracking which allows behavioural understanding of the animals: it provides details during the contact of animals that cannot be labelled automatically before. It also enables the observation of the events’ dynamic. This method allows to provide much more data per animal observed, therefore contributes to reduce the number of animals needed for experiments.